In October I took some vacation from my real job and made my way to San Francisco to meet up with the guys behind 20Mission, including Jered Kenna and Jonathan Ryan Owens. It was fantastic to finally meet some of Bitcoin's personalities in real life, and though they couldn't share a l...

As PayPal is not a bank and reserves the right to freeze your account for whatever reason they deem fits them, you should never use PayPal, unless you can afford to lose your money, or are prepared to take them to court and win, should they steal your funds. While this is not specific...

The average user normally doesn’t want to host a 3+GB file on his machine and wait for hours for it to download. What are the security risks of running a lightweight client? And how does this affect my daily transactions? What features does a “full” client offer a “lightweight” does not?

The food is great, cool atmosphere and the pricing is completely reasonable. No real 'sales pitch' per say. The restaurant is operated by the owners, one of them I have gotten to know personally by eating there. The topic of bitcoin has come up more than a few times, and I would presu...

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I was playing with BitInstant and wanted to test a Cash Deposit to Bitcoin Address transaction. Unfortunately, on the confirmation screen it says: "These coins will then be sent to you via our partner, Coinapult.com. The email will come from Coinapult with instructions on how to send ...

“This was given to me by the president of the United States,” said Mr. Key, marveling that President Obama’s official gift to New Zealand was, after all, a New Zealand product. In Mr. Key’s spare blond-wood office — with no goblins in sight — the sword looked decidedly unmagical. But ...

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency. It is an open source project under active development. More info @ bitcoin.org and bitcoin.it : Getting Started FAQ Common Myths Bitcoin Merchants Community rules Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. ...

YES, RECESSIONS HAPPEN — BUT THEY SERVE PURPOSE Sure, we saved Bank of America and Citibank, but Dwolla, Square, Angellist, Strype, Bitcoin and many thousands of startups in the financial sector were created by entrepreneurs and investors fed up with a broken system. The zero interest...

It sounds like the restaurant is planning on keeping the funds in bitcoin for the time being, which is even better than just converting it to fiat. Perhaps they'll find ways to spend the bitcoins that will benefit their business - such as advertising or to host a website.

It took me like 3 days to find free website hosting for my game project . There are so many locations one can look at when searching for the best of the best free hosting that checking those locations alone is few hours job. Each of the locations have at least one list with hostings t...